Linoë was a city and episcopal see in the Roman province of Bithynia Secunda and is now a titular see.Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 918
History It is known only from the which mention it as late as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a suffragan of the archbishopric of Nicaea. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian must have raised it to the rank of a city.
It is probably the modern Turkish town of Bilecik, a station on the Hnidar-Pasha railway to Konya. It became an important centre for the cultivation of the silk-worm.
Lequien (, I, 657) mentions four bishops of Linoe:
Anastasius, who attended a Council of Constantinople in 692 Leo, at the Second Council of Nicea in 787 Basil and Cyril, the one a partisan of Ignatios of Constantinople, the other of Photius, at the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 879.
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